its diversity. It’s numerous chain of islands contained in the thirty-two thousand miles dividing two oceans‚ the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Sabang is a small island just off the coast of Sumatra; Merauke is a small village near the border of Papua New Guinea. Indonesia’s 13‚677 islands inhabited by 350 different ethnic groups‚ and more than 200 different languages. Consequently this part of the world gave many different cultures‚ traditions‚ and way of lives. Despite this diversity‚ Indonesia
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to study biology in college‚ the process of natural selection explains so much about the modern day life on earth. There is perhaps no phenomenon more wondrous or perplexing than the development of complex life on our planet. Over the countless years of human existence‚ many have attempted to explain just how life came to be. I too have asked how complex life on earth arose‚ and for this answer‚ I turned to science. The process of natural selection is very important to my worldview because it
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Natural selection is mainly thought of as being applied to the biological and physical features of organisms during evolution. The traits that help humans survive through different circumstances will continue to be passed to the next generations because through natural selection the fittest survive. Charles Darwin then applies natural selection to morality in societies. I agree that natural selection can also be applied to the moral faculties of humans. A society’s viewpoint on rationality‚ and what
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• Explanation of the concept of natural selection and how it takes place The theory of natural selection was developed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. They suggested that the mechanism of natural selection was that some organisms have characteristics that are better suited to the environment they live in then others that don’t have these characteristics. These organisms are then more expected to survive to reproduce offspring with these characteristics‚ over generations new organisms
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Summary of “Unity in Diversity” In their article‚ “Unity in Diversity‚” Donald Light and Suzanne Keller explain how all cultures share similarities in their daily lives‚ but the details differ for each culture. George Peter Murdock‚ an anthropologist‚ shares over 60 cultural universals that are the behavior patterns all societies need in order to survive‚ such as social status‚ marriage‚ body adornments‚ religious rituals‚ organization‚ protection‚ and sexual taboos. The details of behavior depend
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The most striking feature of India is its unity amidst great variety and diversity. We have in India all types of topograply‚ climate‚ soil and rainfall. All the major religions of the world are practised here. We have several varieties of costumes‚ food habits and social customs. We have about one thousand six hundred fifty two languages and dialects afferent parts of the country. India is often called a geographical‚ social‚ etimological and cultural museum. Despite all these differences India
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customs and traditions; different races with different faces and marvelous landscapes. These always project India among other countries like “unity in diversity”. Most of us never know about northern states and North Indians like vise- versa but yet we join hands to support any sensational news created by media like Anna Hazare’s corruption movement. We never know how many languages are exiting in our country. There are about 28 states each have its own language‚ tradition‚ culture but inspite of these
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1. “I like the rain. Some people will tell you that the sun is the best‚ but they are wrong. What waits for you in the sun? Skin cancer. What waits for you in the rain? Puddles to jump in. I’ll take puddles over cancer any day.” Tell me as much as you can about this passage as an argument (especially the parts). p1. Sun will bring skin cancer. p2. Rain will bring puddles that we can jump. p3: Pain is bad‚ joy is good. If a thing causes more good things than bad things‚ then it is better. p4:
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How Natural Selection has Shaped the Modern Mind Abstract Mental and emotional faculties have been widely accepted as complex‚ useful‚ and non-arbitrary pieces of the human mind. If these faculties are actually nonrandom parts of our development they must have come from either divine design or natural selection. While there are those that believe that people are created in some divine being’s image‚ many recognize that Darwin’s theory of natural selection has shaped many aspects of the
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Artificial selection in domesticated pigeons and natural selection in wild finches have similar aspects as well as many differences due to the type of selection that occurred. Evolution is the idea that all life on earth shares a common ancestor. Natural selection is the survival and reproduction of traits that are best suited for their environment (Schab‚ 2017). Artificial selection is intentionally selecting traits that are desirable for reproduction. The passing of traits from one generation to
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